Detectives investigating a serious sex attack on a teenager today arrested a 48-year-old local man.
The man is in custody being quizzed by officers in connection with the alleged assault on a 15-year-old girl which happened after midnight on Tuesday, September 26.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was grabbed as she walked in Hall Lane, Windhill, on her way to a friend's house.
She told police she was forced into the grounds of Christ Church in Church Street where she was sexually assaulted before being frog-marched three-quarters of a mile along Thackley Old Road towards a playground.
The teenager said she was then led down to a footpath towards the canal where a man subjected her to a further serious sexual assault before dumping her in the canal and walking off, leaving her in the water.
She managed to climb out of the canal herself and raise the alarm.
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